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During a discussion of the unrest surrounding Charles Murray’s speech at Middlebury College on Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” New York Magazine Writer-at-Large Andrew Sullivan argued, “This is a kind of secular religion. You have to believe, if you’re

Sen. Bernie Sanders will back Hillary Clinton in exchange for speaking opportunities at fall campaign rallies, a fully-funded campaign aircraft and a share of the credit for her hoped-for election, according to a negotiating memo obtained by BuzzFeed News and dated two days before the June 7 California primary.

Critics of Obamacare warned in 2009 and 2010 that the so-called “Affordable Care Act” was merely a “Trojan Horse” that would eventually to a complete government takeover of health care. For that, conservatives were mocked and demonized.

“There is an Islamic element here,” Barney Frank told The Times. “Yes, the overwhelming majority of Muslims don’t do this, but there is clearly, sadly, an element in the interpretation of Islam that has some currency, some interpretation in the Middle East that encourages killing people — and L.G.B.T. people are on that list.”

Former Representative Barney Frank (D-MA) argued that there is “an element of racial prejudice” in the opposition to and concern over illegal immigration on Friday’s “Real Time” on HBO. Frank said, during a discussion of illegal immigration, “Let me add

Hillary Clinton supporter former Representative Barney Frank (D-MA) said that Hillary’s declaration that her coal plan would “put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business.” was “a dumb way to put it” and the odds that

Someone called Spike Lee is threatening to boycott this year’s Oscars for having failed to include a sufficient quota of black talent on their nominations list. This is an excellent campaign and one I shall definitely support once I’ve managed

In an appearance on CNBC on Thursday, long-time network personality Larry Kudlow took on former Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) over what could happen in the 2016 presidential political cycle. According to Kudlow, there is a pathway for current GOP presidential

Friday on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” former Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA), who is openly gay, discussed former GOP House Speaker Dennis Hastert’s alleged sexual misconduct with his former high school students and said the progress American society has made since the 1960s and 70s

Monday on HuffPost Live, former Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) criticized former Republican Speakers Newt Gingrich, Bob Livingston and Dennis Hastert for their hypocrisy in participating in former President Bill Clinton’s impeachment stemming from his sexual misconduct, when they all have sexual

Retired Congressman Barney Frank (D-MA) tells Breitbart News in an exclusive interview that while he served as chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, Congress exercised no oversight over the activities of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS). The portrait of Frank that emerges from the exclusive Breitbart interview is of someone totally disinterested in exercising Congressional oversight responsibilities over any CFIUS approved transactions.

House Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) has sent a letter to Secretary of Treasury Jack Lew asking for answers on the 2010 approval by the Committee on Foreign Investments in the United States (CFIUS) of a controversial deal in which the Russian government gained control of 20 percent of America’s uranium deposits.

California’s Democrat Party will show its true blue colors by featuring two Massachusetts liberals as its keynote speakers at its convention next month in Anaheim: Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and retired Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA).

According to the California Realtors’ home ownership affordability report, only 28 percent of Los Angeles residents can afford to buy a home in Los Angeles, due to the combination of low inventory and the fact that the Dodd-Frank Consumer Protection Act made it much harder for immigrants and first-time buyers to qualify for a loan.

The panel on Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time” criticized Ted Cruz for saying his music tastes from classic rock to country after September 11. Host Bill Maher, who dismissed Hillary Clinton’s email as a “fake” scandal, said that Cruz’s remarks

This week on “HuffPost Live,” former Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) attacked Fox News correspondent Bill O’Reilly as a “right-wing mouthpiece” who “distorts consistently for the right-wing.” Frank said, “He’s also a bully. I’ve had shouting matches with him. You have this problem when

The Left appears increasingly flustered over events in the Middle East, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Likud party’s declaration of victory in Tuesday’s elections isn’t likely to help matters much.

Despite all the pain Americans suffered from sub-prime lending, the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) and the Community Redevelopment Act (CRA) are once again pushing low-income people with little or financial cushion into dicey mortgage loans.